Door-hanger



(No Model.)

J. A. HAGERMAN.

DOOR HANGER.

Patented May 4, 1897.

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JOSEPH A. HAGERMA, OF FINDLAY, OHIO.

OQRHHANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 582,055, dated May 4, 1897. Application filed July 18, 1896. Serial No. 599,644. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, J o'snrn A. HAGERMAN, of Findlay, in the countyof Hancock and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Door-Han gers; and l do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use it, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification.

Thisin vention relates to door-hangers; and the object thereof is to provide an exceptionally strong and durable hanger of simple form, and a further object is to so arrange the same that the door may be displaced vertically without throwingthe hanger-roller from the track.

lVith these objects in view the invention consists in the novel features of construction herein fully described and claimed and illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure lis a perspective view ofthe hanger. Fig. 2 is a front elevation thereof shown in connection with a portion of a door and track, the front plate being partially removed to clearly show the roller-bearings. Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the door raised or dis placed vertically with the roller still remaining upon the track. Fig. ais a sectional plan view. Fig. 5 is a erossesectional view.

The frame consists of the two horizontal parallel bars A, which are secured in the up-` per bowed end of door-supporting strap B by means of bolts C, passing through the strap end as well as the bars and passing also through the sleeve D, arranged between bars A, so as to properly space them and also to make the construction perfectly rigid and very strong'.

Roller E, which travels on track F, is arranged between bars A, the journal G thereof extending into openings in bars A. The top portion H as well as the side portions ll of these openings are rounded outward, as shown, to accommodate rollers I, said rollers being confined in the openings H and H" by side plates J, secured to the inner and outer surfaces of 4bars A, as shown. When arranged as here shown, the rollers cannot be- Acome displaced from their respective openprovided for without affecting the friction*` rollers in the slightest degree, as the latter cannot become displaced.

The displaced position of the door is indicated in Fig. 3, and when it resumes its normal position the hanger-frame simply descends until the friction-rollers are brought to bear upon the journals, as will be readily understood. The door is usually mounted with a comparatively short space between the.

same and the rail, and it is my intention to ai'tord the frame sui'iicient adjustment upon the roller to cause the door depending from the hanger and beneath the track to engage the latter when displaced vertically before lifting the roller therefrom. Then thus arranged, it becomes practically impossible to derail the hanger.

' Ball-beari ugs in stead of friction-rollers may be used in openings HH, ifso desired,with out departing from the spirit of my invention, as the same would operate quite eftectually and serve the desired purpose.

I do not desire that my invention shall be understood as limited to door-hangers with respect to the arrangement of the roller and the friction-bearin gs and the vertical adj ustment afforded the roller-frame with respect to the roller, for this principle may be embodied in other arts and at the same time be fully Within the scope ofthe present invention.

Having lthus fully describedmy invention, what l claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

An improved door hanger comprising a frame having separated sides formed with alined journal-openings and Iche top and side ing at its top and sides upon the friction-rollopenings H H" respectively communicating ers, substantially as shown `mid described. Io With said journal-openings, the roller havin g In testimony whereof I affix my signature its journal bearing in said j onwel-openings, in presence of two Witnesses.

5 and the friction-rollers litt'ingloosel yin open- JOSEPH A. HAGERMAN.V

ings H', 1'1", and capable of vertical and lat- Witnesses: eral displacement respectively, the journal A. N. DICKERSON,

loosely itting in the frame-openings and bear- M. D. SOURS. 

